Viruses pose a widespread risk to bumblebees

Professor Sharma wins top award

Professor Pankaj Sharma was recently named the UK's top Asian medical doctor at the British Indian Awards

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We have an active and expanding research programme based on our three research centres: Biomedical Sciences; Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour; and Plant Molecular Sciences. Our stimulating research environment has more than 30 permanent members of academic staff, 30 postdoctoral Research Fellows and Assistants and around 40 postgraduate students, all housed in well-equipped laboratories.

New collaborative work initiated by Professor George Dickson and researchers at the School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, the Institut de Myology (Paris) and an Australian biotechnology company Benitec BioPharma has demonstrated the effectiveness of an innovative gene therapy for OPMD

Lauren Edwards, a postgraduate student in the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway has received the highly commended prize for the Marsh Horticultural Science Award, presented by the Marsh Christian Trust in association with the Royal Horticultural Society.

New research from Royal Holloway published today in Critical Care Medicine shows that lowering the body temperature of people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as soon as possible after the trauma may significantly improve chances of survival in adults.